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In response to Re: Read consistency when using synchronous_commit=off  (Ravi Krishna <srkrishna@fastmail.com>)
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Thanks Ravi for the clarification, we will go ahead with "synchronous_commit=off".

On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 10:47 AM Ravi Krishna <srkrishna@fastmail.com> wrote:
Sorry I misunderstood.  The term "read consistency" is generally used either in the context of isolation level or in the context of slaves.

We don't have standby instance, as I have mentioned we are using just one instance of postgres serving local clients running on the same machine, do you know in this case what is the behavior ?


You are good.  All transactions update buffer cache too, along with WAL buffer and hence other sessions can immediately see the changes. synchronous_commit=off will only reduce the fsync calls, which makes them less crash safe, but the database consistency is not compromised.
  



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